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Slavery divided this country. The Civil War is a war that was fought between the Union and Confederacy between 1861 and 1865. The issue that divided the states was slavery. The Union wanted to abolish slavery, where as the Confederacy felt threatened by the idea of abolishing slavery. The event that started the war happened at Fort Sumter when the Confederacy army opened fire towards the Union. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell changed the way people think about the Civil War because it shows how the war affected the women, a personal way of why the South was fighting, and how the war affected this novel. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a novel that tells the story of a woman named Scarlett O’Hara and how the Civil War affected her life. Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900 in Atlanta Georgia. She started writing the book in 1926 after she broke her ankle and was not able to go anywhere. The book was published ten years later and has sold over thirty-million copies since then. Mitchell’s life ended thirteen years after the book was first published when she was hit by a car in 1949 and died five days later. The actual book tells a story about a young woman named Scarlett O’Hara and shows …show more content…

Scarlett is affected by the war because it shows her how to be selfless and take care of others. The perspective of the book shows an interesting perspective on the South’s Cause. Gone With The Wind was affected by the war because almost everything Scarlett goes through happens because of the war. This novel gives a new perspective of the war because it shows how much the war affected the women. Scarlett went through many hardships, but her stealth and strong will cause her to overcome every obstacle that comes her

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The Civil War was a battle of great importance to our history of the United States. On April 12th, 1861 this battle broke out between the Union States, North, and the Confederate States, such as the South. The Civil War took place all throughout the United states, and did not come to an end until the Union won the war on May 9, 1856. So, our question of “What caused the Civil War”, comes with three important answers. The three main causes of the Civil War between the North and the South were Economic, Social, and Political differences.

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Reconstruction Plans Portfolio Project The American Civil War was fought in the United States by the Union, made up of states loyal to the North, and the Confederacy, made up of states loyal to the South. These regions disagreed about the legality/morality of slavery, state and federal rights, and other policies; this caused the South to secede from the North. The American Civil War started in 1861 and ended in 1865 until the Confederacy surrendered.

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The Missouri Compromise, Sectionalism, the steady rise in the Abolitionist Movement, and the election of Abraham Lincoln all contributed to the conflict which began the Civil War. The continuous disagreements regarding slavery between the North and South divided the Union early on. Differences in culture, education and social practices cultivated the growing divide between regions. Most northern states had completely abolished slavery by the beginning of the nineteenth century, causing the conflict of interest politically between the North and South. With the western territories being settled at a rapid pace, a fierce political competition heated between the North and South.

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In 1861 and 1865, the United States engaged in a war known as the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln become president in 1860, the country was divided, between the North and the South. President Lincoln wanted to end slavery, while the southern states did not want slavery to end. At the end of 1860 to the early months of 1861, eleven southern states seceded from the Union, meaning the states were no longer apart of the United States of America. Southern states include South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

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The Civil War was one of America's biggest wars and was all based on the different opinions of the North and the South. When the North wanted to outlaw slavery the South responded when South Carolina seceded from the the Union and brought many other states with them. Clearly the South did not agree with the Norths opinion and wanted to do something about it. After South Carolina seceded Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida followed shortly after.

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Scarlett O’Hara perfectly represented the South, before, during, and after the war. Scarlett was spoiled, had no real compassion for others, and was extremely manipulative. At the beginning of the movie you could easily see how spoiled Scarlett was, she had everything she wanted (material wise) and still was unsatisfied. Scarlett's behavior at the beginning of the movie represents the South before the war, everyone had the most expensive things and didn’t expect to lift a single finger to obtain them.

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing”, writes Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird (20). Lee was a southern white woman who witnessed segregation and found it wrong to judge people based on skin color. Therefore she wrote a book to explain that nothing was different between the people. To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Lee and it was the only novel she wrote until she almost passed away.

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Gone With The Wind follows a woman named Scarlett O’Hara through her life as a Southern belle and her progression from a rich child to poor woman who regains her fortune by going against societal ideals of women. It also portrays many black characters such as Mammy, Scarlett’s matronly nurse, Prissy, the stereotyped servant who is constantly seen as the brunt of the joke, and Big Sam, who serves as a hero for Scarlett once but is never mentioned again. Selznick uses the female and black characters in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind to portray the oppression forced on both women and people of subjected races during the

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The film depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O 'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in. The underlying focus in Fleming’s Gone with the Wind is that only those who are born survivors will really prosper during times of true hardship. A born survivor is one who will do anything to

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Gone With The Wind a novel by Margaret Mitchell deals with the themes and struggles related to the times of the Civil War and the Reconstruction in the South. Mitchell wrote this book after an injury ended her career as a journalist. She wrote from a strictly Southern point of view, and the history and input of her family members helped her better understand the hardships the Georgians faced in the war and post-war periods. Mitchell’s goal in writing this book was to memorialize the Confederacy and bring the younger generations into an understanding that while many immortalize the leaders, they were merely men and the ideals of the confederacy were immoral. Gone With The Wind begins with the life of a Southern Belle, Miss Scarlett O’Hara flirting with two beaux on the brink of the

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These days, sensitive people find anything to be offensive even though it wasn't directed towards them. The sensitivity is at an all time high as literature that used to be the "greats" and "classics" are banned from curriculums. Although the subjects portrayed are sensitive matters, Gone with the Wind provides us with an accurate depiction of the Civil War and events surrounding it. The depiction of the Civil War in Gone with the Wind was very realistic, but it provided an accurate illustration of the war.

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